Polly is a big fan of French postmodern critic Roland Barthes's A Lover's Discourse, an exquisite dissection of the delirium and delusions engendered by the amorous condition, an inventory of the neurotic rituals the lover devises to defuse anxiety.
Mr. Zoffinger, the administration's lead negotiator on the Newark arena and the key official on Meadowlands redevelopment, has been busy defusing anxiety and anger in Bergen County over the planned demolition of the Continental Arena.
American officials said this was an essential agreement to defuse American anxieties.
Cartoons, Mr. Modell noted, are there to defuse readers' anxieties about encountering "great slabs of type," the way clowns defuse the intensity of the high-wire act.
Rather, it was believed that the council would endorse the idea of a state by year's end, so as to defuse growing anxieties that September will bring violence if it does not bring peace.
His announcement is expected to defuse the anxiety of non-Muslims, but could also anger Shariah's ardent backers.
They spent many hours in standard psychotherapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder, gradually becoming exposed to dreaded situations — a moldy shower stall, for instance — and practicing cognitive and relaxation techniques to defuse their anxiety.
If you defuse the anxiety before other people have time to realize it, you have no reason to blush anymore.
Asilomar is remembered as a great success because it defused public anxiety and opened up the market for biotechnology.
AB de Villiers, promoted above the injured Jacques Kallis, quickly asserted himself with two attractive boundaries and a three in an over from Bresnan and defused any anxiety over Pietersen by reverse-sweeping him for four.
